![]() The most notable events occur when meeting Blue for the first time, who is not your rival, but rather, an entirely separate character and actually running into members of the Kanto Elite Four and an Alola Trial Master very early in your adventure.īecause the story and game structure is relatively timeless when it comes to this franchise, some of the biggest newer features are things I want to focus on. There are nods all over the place to events both in the original set of games and teasing that this is some sort of alternate timeline and more in the “reimagining” mold. The catch system is fun, if a bit tedious after a while, and the games also marked the main series debut of Jessie and James from the Pokémon anime. The basic story is the same as the original games, though it has some minor tweaks that make it very endearing to players both new and old. Eevee becomes broken relatively quickly because despite not being able to evolve, it can learn a move from every single element it could potentially evolve into, giving it a sweeper moveset as early as the second gym. It’s like a cat and a baby mixed together, except it actually likes and listens to you. My starter of choice was Eevee, who melted my heart immediately as the game booted up. That said, as a longtime fan of the franchise, there was no way I wasn’t going to get my hands on this game and give it a whirl. These baseline changes caused quite a stir among the Pokémon community, and the stir only quickened when it was revealed the game was not truly aimed at age-old Pokémon fans, but rather newcomers to the series. Instead, we have overworld sprites so you can see every Pokémon in the grass, waves, and caves, as well as the wild battles being replaced by a catching mechanic similar to Pokémon Go. One of the most highly touted changes to this year’s installment, however, was the removal of random wild Pokémon battles and encounters. It must also be said that in a world of video games constantly jumping on new trends such as battle passes, microtransactions, and battle royales, it’s nice that Nintendo and Game Freak haven’t really changed up the Pokémon formula at all in the twenty years they’ve been around. Together with your chosen starter, you explore the region of Kanto and take on the Pokémon League Challenge, stop the villainous Team Rocket, and collect all of the original 150 Pokémon. The Let’s Go games are a remake, or rather, a reimagining of Pokémon Yellow from the original Game Boy where you can start the game with series mascot Pikachu or the always underappreciated Eevee. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! launched a few weeks ago as one of the season’s biggest releases, as it is Pokémon’s first real venture on the Switch and would have been Nintendo’s biggest game of the year were it not for some little low-budget game called Smash something-or-another. My favorite image of this holiday season has been seeing box art of Arthur Morgan pointing his gun clean at your face with nothing but an aggressive red backdrop on shelves next to a brightly colored adorable electric rodent and an equally heart melting scarf fox-squirrel-dog.
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